منابع مشابه
Coming to terms with early sports specialization and athletic injuries.
The body grows stronger and performs best when appropriate loads and activities are followed by appropriate physical and mental rest and recovery. With this understanding, one has to question the true value of developing a particular sport skill set during childhood and adolescence at the expense of early injury, burnout, and lack of coping-skill development.
متن کاملA case of early sports specialization in an adolescent athlete.
Early sport specialization (ESS) refers to intense year round training in a specific sport with the exclusion of other sports at a young age. This approach to training is heavily debated and there are claims both in support and against ESS. ESS is considered to be more common in the modern day youth athlete and could be a source of overuse injuries and burnout. This case describes a 16 year old...
متن کاملSports Specialization vs Diversification
O ver the past 40 years or so, there has been a significant change in the direction of amateur sports in the United States. Way back when, participating in several sports (baseball, basketball, football, or track) was the goal of many high school athletes. If you could letter in 3, especially before your senior year in high school, that was quite impressive. Those who achieved this goal in thei...
متن کاملSports Specialization, Part II
CONTEXT Many coaches, parents, and children believe that the best way to develop elite athletes is for them to participate in only 1 sport from an early age and to play it year-round. However, emerging evidence to the contrary indicates that efforts to specialize in 1 sport may reduce opportunities for all children to participate in a diverse year-round sports season and can lead to lost develo...
متن کاملSports Specialization in Young Athletes
CONTEXT Sports specialization is intense training in 1 sport while excluding others. Sports specialization in early to middle childhood has become increasingly common. While most experts agree that some degree of sports specialization is necessary to achieve elite levels, there is some debate as to whether such intense practice time must begin during early childhood and to the exclusion of othe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Sports Medicine Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1537-890X
DOI: 10.1249/jsr.0000000000000425